Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
Source Firkin
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
A criss-cross pattern similar to one I saw mown into a sports field.
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ